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Sunday, September 14, 2014
It's Pink, It Must Be Good.
Amongst a world of hipster, organic, artisan ice cream shops and $1000 ice creams, sometimes the best, as my great aunt's neighbor's best friend's cousin's mother-in-law used to say, are the cheapest. This is beautifully evident in the nostalgic ice cream brand, Thrifty's. As a (smaller) child, Thrifty's ice cream (specifically from the Rite Aid in Hollywood), made up the larger aspect of my pleasurable soul. And as I grew and became a (larger) child, my soul remains the same. With my first visit back to Thrifty's in the Hollywood Rite Aid, I was fortunate enough to encounter, behind the wonderfully shiny (and slightly stained) glass covering the ice cream, Thrifty's feature flavor, Circus Animal Cracker ice cream. Feature flavor; it even sounds exciting! With a double scoop (the other flavor of which I shall not name as to not take away from the feature flavor's glory) I felt as if my childhood, frolicking through a field of daffodils and other select varieties of flowers (but mainly daffodils), began to slowly speed up, as it abruptly hit my in the lower right of my stomach and knocked me down into a pit of unconsciousness. Once I awoke, I felt a bit dizzy, with a sharp pain near my head. Ignoring that, I began to eat the ice cream, some of which had melted away, forming a delicious glove around my hand. Now, Circus Animal Crackers fall under a profoundly specific, profoundly exclusive category titled "Processed, artificially flavored, non-organic foods which my healthy self refuses to refrain from". Mixing that into a beautifully sweet (and I need sweet), creamy, wonderfully pink colored ice cream completes a part of the category of my dreams titled "Ice cream and childhood". I will be frank, however, and say that this is not the best tasting ice cream I have ever had. Yet I so rarely find it possible to describe any one item as being "the best" or standing out merely due to a sole determining factor such as taste, appearance, or content alone. This ice cream is not the best due to its taste, its content, the memories it evokes. It is the best because of a combination of all, intermingling in a way that elicits all emotions, truly allowing it to be "the best".
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You are an exceptionally talented writer Mariam. You are very good at painting a scene for the reader. Your description of the ice cream, along with the emotions they evoked within you combined to create a very unique, and interesting post. Never lost interest once while reading your post. Good job!
ReplyDeleteIt is a grand experience to witness the organic-loving, casual Saturday farming hipster types isolate themselves from the hype and rejoin the remainder of society. Had you not admitted to the substandard taste factor of this uncanny ice cream flavor, I would have called you out, as it tastes like dissolved Kleenex, but alas your hipster-bred honesty crossed over. Your writing, centered on your childhood, was engaging and heartfelt, though my mother never allowed me to get ice cream from Rite Aid's ice cream parlor up until this year. Your argument as to why Thrifty Circus Animal Cracker feature flavor ice cream is the "best" is not too pressing, and therefore contains profound effectiveness. Perhaps this is why I find myself choosing your favorite flavor each time I visit Rite Aid (only to mourn at my decision as my taste buds cringe at the tissue aftertaste).
ReplyDeleteAnd you should probably get that head of yours checked.
I knew I was immediately going to like your post as soon as I saw the title. I liked how you introduced the topic and your description of your favorite ice cream was immensely detailed and quite unique. You never fail to amaze me. You captivated my ultimate attention throughout your post and I genuinely believe that yours was one of the best ice cream posts.
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